Socialism is Racist?

By BJ

Well at least according to some guy at the Kansas City Star

The "socialist" label that Sen. John McCain and his GOP presidential running mate Sarah Palin are trying to attach to Sen. Barack Obama actually has long and very ugly historical roots.

J. Edgar Hoover, director of the FBI from 1924 to 1972, used the term liberally to describe African Americans who spent their lives fighting for equality.

Now, maybe its just me, but this seems a bit of a stretch. Now, certainly as the author points out later, McCain and Palin are doing their level best to make Obama out to be un-American and his supporters as not belonging the to “real” America, but that’s not about his being black. Its about his being a closet Arab/Muslim/baby-killing/terrorist loving radical leftist. Or in other words a Democrat.

I mean, when you’ve got things like this, this, this, this, this, this, and these folks in the clip below to work with, the whole, “Socialism means Black”, business just helps the Republican apologists pretend there’s nothing to see here.

OTOH, Kyle E. Moore feels its worth taking a look at.

Comments

[rawdawgbuffalo]

i dont think that palin even knows what socialism is, in fact she and mccain may be the real socialist